I could not say about that but generally you are better off photographing flowers on cloudy or cloudy bright days with the exception of having sunlight back lighting the blooms.
Little dark, little blurry. Need a faster shutter speed, improved hand-holding technique, tripod, or some combination of the group to sharpen your shot.
What I like? The perspective.
You should update you profile or add to your signature what camera you're shooting with. And... welcome.
Shooting across wide, flat flowers is also difficult, especially when lighting forces your settings -- where is your focus going to be? The petals at that angle are usually uninteresting and focusing on the stamen makes the blurring worse unless you can get a lot of DOF that close. Unless I have a specific purpose, I try to stay at least 30° above this type of flower's 'horizontal' plane.
my goal was to do a 90* shot because that's one of my projects for my photography school, I will probably go back & reread that lesson.
The focus was going to be the middle of the flower, and my goal was to do a 90* shot because that's one of my projects for my photography school, I will probably go back & reread that lesson.
While Wev's suggestion is a good one, don't sweat it as you have a specific lesson you have to accomplish. Unless in your reread it's not a 90 degree shoot in the instructions LOL. Then you owe Wev for catching this LOL!
For the sun to light your subject at a 90° angle, the sun should be lower in the sky--such as early morning or late in the evening. This would allow your subject to have one side of it lit.